Most excellent of all the plants art thou: thy vassals are the trees. Let him be subject to our power, the man who seeks to injure us.

2 Whoever seeks to injure us, with kinsmen or no kin to aid, may I be uppermost of all, even as this plant is queen of trees.

3 As the provision of God has been made the best of all gifts among the plants, so, as this tree is queen of trees, may I be chief of all.